I strongly agree with Main and Kho’s primary contention that a relational approach can provide clarity regarding how empathy-related processes become increasingly coordinated over the lifespan. However, I go further to suggest that their “relational approach” should be expanded to include the larger social, cultural, economic, political, and moral contexts that shape and influence more intimate interpersonal relations, including empathic processes. Such an ethnographic, comparative approach has the advantage of helping us ascertain the extent to which empathic processes vary in different times and places (including the ways in which “empathy” is defined and conceptualized), but also aids us in identifying more accurately what is most “basic” or translocal about these processes.

中文翻译：

---

评论：整合儿童和成人共情研究的关系框架

我非常同意Main和Kho的主要观点，即关系方法可以清楚地说明与移情相关的过程在整个生命周期中如何日益协调。但是，我进一步建议，应将其“关系方法”扩展到包括较大的社会，文化，经济，政治和道德环境，从而塑造和影响更亲密的人际关系，包括移情过程。这种人种学的比较方法的优点是可以帮助我们确定移情过程在不同时间和地点的变化程度（包括“移情”的定义和概念化方式），但也可以帮助我们更准确地确定什么是移情。关于这些过程的大多数“基本的”或跨地方的。